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• One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

  ~ Sonia Johnson quotes

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• It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

  ~ Mahatma Gandhi quotes

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• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Individuality, Warrior, Parents, History, Friend

• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  ~ B.C. Forbes quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Heart, Obstacle, Winner, History, Defeat, Win

• We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

  ~ Carl Sagan quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Sin, The Moment, History

• I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so--what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution. This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life--solving problems--and the harder they are, the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes from The Private Albert Einstein; p. 29

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Albert Einstein, Solution, Act, Yin, Great, Life, Understand, Be You, Average, Give, People, History, Dying

• History, though, shows us that the people who end up changing the world—the great political, scientific, social, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries—are always nuts, until they’re right, and then they’re geniuses.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

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• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history’s greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, “I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue.”

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

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• Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

  ~ Connie Zweig quotes from Romancing the Shadow

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Character, Emotion, Act, The Moment, Past, Reaction, Motion, History

• If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes

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